When I was a young child, maybe 5 years old, my family stopped by a gas station in a predominantly black neighborhood. It was dark. I was...

By Big Sto Jurny Big and Peace 586 (both part of The Tunnel Rats) are pioneers in Hip-hop. I was five years old when LPG’s (a group...

Five years ago Skyzoo gave me a birthday present. Okay, he didn’t wrap up a gift and send it to me via UPS. But, just a few days after my...

“Glory” with its rolling snares, cloudy choir esq. vocal samples, and choppy horns opens up the Champion Sounds by Wordsworth & Pearl...

By Michael Stover For ‘The Boom Bap Review’ series I’ve tried not to write about EPs because that adds sooo many records to an already...

I've said it a few times and I'll say it yet again. We are living in a new Hip-hop golden age. It is different from the past. Back then...

Hip-hop is competitive. Artists claim to be the greatest of their city. Others say they are the greatest period. Hip-hop fans follow suit...

Apollo Brown. Che Noir. Features by Black Thought, Skyzoo, Ty Farris, and Planet Asia. If you know these names, you know where this is...

If you follow KRS-One at all, you have heard the phrase “You are not doing Hip-hop, you are hip-hop.” But, what exactly IS Hip-hop? In...

My top five favorite Jay-Z albums are as follows: 5. Unplugged 4. The Black Album 3. The Blueprint 2. 4:44 1. Reasonable Doubt I took a...

The Native Tongue collective started in the late 80’s and gained momentum entering into the early 90’s. However, for whatever reason,...

2019 was another incredible year in Hip-hop. It was monumental in the release of several new albums from Gang Starr, Black Moon, and Smif...

Lyrically no emcee has a bigger impact than Rakim. Every single lyrical emcee that came after Rakim can arguably be traced back to him....

So the morning this Little Brother album came out I sat down and listened to it. While I listened to it, I wrote about it in real time....

My social media timeline was filled with fighting. No. Not about Trump. Not about the immigration issue on the Southern boarder. Not...

The other week I drove a group of young teenagers down to Asheville, NC. They played me a bunch of Hip-hop music that they like. I didn’t...

Three years ago I was not in a very good place. I went from performing nearly 100 shows a year to performing nearly 1 every few months…...

I was at a used book/music store the other day and I saw two of my favorite Jay-Z albums (the Blueprint & American Gangsta) for $2. So,...

It is no secret that many Hip-hop artists use profanity in their music. Many of us use profanity all the time. Whether we are vehemently...

I was at the record store sometime around the summer or fall of 1995. I saw two CDs in the used section that I wanted: “2000” by Grand...